[Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the "real world"

[Yossi Gil]

Hi.

Take note that ALL book readers (kendalls and the such) work on Linux.
Nokia is moving to Linux.
Western Digital MyBook disks use Linux.
Google Data Centers are all Linux based.

More to come.

2009/10/31 Vadim Eisenberg <vadim.eisenberg at gmail.com>:
> Eli,
>
> Will you teach anything specific to Linux or general Unix development tools ? If you will teach the general Unix, it is not really relevant to the students of the lecture the difference between Linux and Unix, so you probably can provide general Unix usage statistics to "sell" the students Unix development tools.
>
> Regards,
> Vadim
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: haifux-bounces at haifux.org [mailto:haifux-bounces at haifux.org] On
>> Behalf Of guy keren
>> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:52 AM
>> To: Eli Billauer
>> Cc: Haifa Linux Club
>> Subject: Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the "real world"
>>
>>
>> tivo (the first wide-spread digital video recording appliance) is a
>> linux-based machine.
>>
>> linksys wireless routers are linux-based machines.
>>
>> google's android operating system is actually based on linux.
>>
>> many (most?) cable modems and adsl modems run linux as their base
>> operating system.
>>
>> in fact, a lot of embedded products developed in israel (And of-course
>> abroad) are based on linux.
>>
>> google's search appliances and data-centers all run linux - so when you
>> search via google, you're using linux
>> (http://www.google.com/support/gsa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=15898)
>>
>> --guy
>>
>> Eli Billauer wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm working on the short talk I'm going to give on Wednesday on the
>> > W2L opening event.
>> >
>> >
>> > I'd like to give some examples of well-known uses of GNU/Linux. Does
>> > anyone have information, or even better, pointers to credible sources
>> > of such information?
>> >
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any credible number of Linux penetration in servers,
>> > business and government desktops?
>> >
>> >
>> > For example, some of Edimax wireless routers are actually Linux
>> > machines. How do I know? Because they give a link to the source. (See
>> >
>> http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=268&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=
>> > 18 )
>> >
>> >
>> > I need more like these. Or articles.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> >    Eli
>> >
>>
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